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Snapchat is Now Snap Inc and Enters the Hardware Realm

by Norbert Hildebrand

Snapchat, the image messaging and multimedia mobile application has changed its name into Snap Inc. and is preparing to offer its first hardware product. With its short lived image and video clips, Snapchat has …

Tags:Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Wearables

The Fraunhofer FEP Bi-directional Display Kit Now Ready

by Milos Pavlovic

We’ve been reporting on the bi-directional OLED microdisplay with SVGA resolution that it has developed for some time. Now the FEP is making available a new hardware reference design with HDMI and USB interfaces. …

Tags:3D| Eyewear| Fraunhofer| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 37

Vuzix Demonstrates New Waveguide Augmented Reality (AR) Technology

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, announced today that it has released a short video demonstrating its new waveguide augmented reality …

Tags:Eyewear| Vuzix

Vuzix Launches M300 Smart Glasses VIP Program

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, announced today that in preparation of M300 Smart Glasses shipments to key accounts, Vuzix is …

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Epson Moverio Partners with Atheer to Deliver Remote Expert Collaboration

by Isaac Oburu

Epson, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality smart eyewear platform, today announced a partnership with Atheer, creators of the AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality™) software suite, to deliver remote expert collaboration, rapid task flow deployment …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| Eyewear

Solos Promotes With Kickstarter

by Tom Allen

Solos has launched a Kickstarter campaign (http://tinyurl.com/gn38566) to promote its AR smart cycling glasses. These have been developed with the US cycling team. They use a HUD, paired with performance tracking and training tools. …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Eyewear| Kopin| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Vuzix to Participate in 7th Annual Augmented World Expo USA Event

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Video Eyewear and Smart Glasses products in the consumer, enterprise, and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the Company will participate in the 7th annual Augmented World …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Events| Eyewear| Vuzix

IC12 Microsoft Summarises AR & VR Developments

by Bob Raikes

The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview of what is happening in VR and AR. There were 175 slides! Before …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| SmartGlasses| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearables

Display Week 2016 and Human – Display Evolution

by Steve Sechrist

At a standing-room only crowd of 500+ Display Week attendees, Intel’s display guru Achin Bhowmik stunned the crowd of mostly mechanical and electrical engineers, product managers and physicists, by asking them what significant event …

Tags:display technology| Eyewear| Gaze Recognition| Head Up Displays HUDs| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC10 Leia Uses Diffraction for Lightfields

by Bob Raikes

David Fattal is founder and CEO of Leia, a company that was founded to develop holographic displays for mobile devices. The world today has the cloud, connectivity, content and AI and we increasingly rely …

Tags:Eyewear| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| SmartGlasses| Vol 23 - Issue 21